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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

First Gerald R. Ford-Class Carrier Gets Superlift Toward Completion

SuperliftGerald R. Ford (CVN 78), the lead ship in the new class of U.S. Navy super carriers, took another step toward completion Saturday as Huntington Ingalls Industries erected a 945-ton superlift near the stern of the ship.

Gerald R. Ford is being built using modular construction, a process where smaller sections of the ship are welded together to form large structural units called superlifts.

These superlifts are pre-outfitted and then lifted into the construction dry dock with the shipyard's 1050-metric ton crane.

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